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Football, For the Last Time (Until the Next Time)
I read forum comments – occasionally – until the stupidity, trolling, or pathetic lack of proofreading becomes unbearable. I don’t comment because it just isn’t worth it; I come here and scratch out...
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If You Can Prove It, It’s Science
An argument is an intellectual process; contradiction is the automatic gainsaying of whatever the other person says! No, it isn’t. And with that exchange, Michael Palin and John Cleese, of the comedy...
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Online Poker and the All-In Trolls
I’ve dabbled a bit in the world of online poker and while I may not be ready for the big leagues, I’ve had some modicum of success. It’s interesting to see how the game works on TV and then trying to...
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Photoshop Enables My Dark Side
Photomanipulation of images from Getty Images and Lucasfilms, LTD. While there is certainly plenty that I could yip about concerning the cesspool that is the current state of American politics and...
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Unleashing the Inner Voice
Here we have two gentlemen: Donald Sterling, owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, and Wayne La Pierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association. One has garnered national...
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In Which Maureen Dowd Launches the Zombie Apocalyse
I’ve seen a few websites hosted by folks who don’t care for the politics of ol’ Maureen and have done zombiesque defacements of her pictures. Quite frankly, they all suck. I’m not saying that because...
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Lazypedia
We’ve all heard the derision at one point or another about the usefulness, in fact, the legitimacy of items gleaned from the pages of Wikipedia. Its detractors roil about how anyone can put anything...
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Iraq: Who Couldn’t See This Coming?
©2014 James Montgomery Studios Yeah, there’s trouble in Iraq and it looks like the country is going up in flames. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. But at the same time, if you couldn’t see, as...
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Live Performance
Stand on the stage through the blinding lights. See the camera phones waving and the people who paid to see aren’t watching me at all. And I take comfort knowing that later on in social media the video...
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CorporateSpeak™: Pre-Viz and the Language of the Unthinking
CorporateSpeak™ is my series in which I rant about the misuse or the general idiocy of language as it exists in our United States of America. Occasionally I will pick on the British, but...
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Ignoramuses + Rants = “Ignorants”
I can’t say I have a solution to the influx of children fleeing the barbarism of their home countries, but watching the ginned-up zealotry over… what exactly is the outrage here? Regardless of...
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Lost In Translation
I wasn’t really planning on doing anything like this since I am working on another piece for this ill-tended blog I call “my little brain cramp”, but I could not let this go. Reports are circulating...
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Airheads with their…um…Airheads in the Cloud
The Cloud was a bad idea. Never liked it, still don’t. Ah, yes, nekkid pictures, the lifeblood of the internet. And thanks to the interest the internet has in nekkid pictures, we have a scandal of...
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A Trip to the ASMR Barber
As I have perused and abused YouTube for many years – I no longer maintain an account since Google+ took over – I came across the all-time greatest video which is Baba, the cosmic barber in Pushkar,...
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Social Media Sucks…Again
“Life’s too short to debate other people’s opinions.” -Neil DeGrasse Tyson I thought the “update” to the logo was unnecessary, so doing this was a pleasure! Ah, the internet...
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The Death of Honey Boo-Boo
I never had occasion to watch the show – basically because I dumped my cable TV – but I have longed for the day when Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo would be given the axe. What little I know about the show...
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Heyba, Mamby, Who Be Raybbin?
You’re travelling through social media, a dimension of insinuation, of gossip, of unprovable nonsense; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of agendas and biases and a willingness...
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The Force Binds the Universe Together … and Goes to Sleep?
I let the dust settle a bit on the teaser trailer for Star Wars – The Force Awakens that had fanboys and haters all geeked out over the weekend. I have watched the offering from the new Sith Lord of...
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Confessions
I took a hiatus from writing on this blog, not because I am tired of writing nonsense, but I am getting very tired of writing about nonsense; unfortunately, there is plenty of that to write about. The...
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